diff --git a/google-cloud-firestore/pom.xml b/google-cloud-firestore/pom.xml
index b7c9ae733..2fa4f2c47 100644
--- a/google-cloud-firestore/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-firestore/pom.xml
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
       <artifactId>proto-google-cloud-trace-v1</artifactId>
-      <version>2.68.0</version>
+      <version>2.81.0</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>